时间:2018-12-02 作者:英语课 分类:美语怎么说


英语课

  Donny 在北京学中文。他的中国朋友要是遇到了不知道用美语怎么说的词,就会来请教他。今天是杨林要问的:忙。

Donny:Hi 杨琳,what's up? I haven't seen you in ages.

YL: 别提了,我最近特别忙,I am really busy! 忙得四脚朝天,怎么说...four feet up!

Donny: four feet up? I can imagine. But in English, we don't say that....You can say I'm up to my neck in work.

YL: I'm up to my neck... in work ? 工作太多,堆到和脖子一样高?被工作压得喘不过气来。这个说法太形象了! 还有别的吗?

Donny: There is another expression 1 that also has to do with body parts. It is "I've got my hands full".

YL: I've got my hands full。我明白了,就是说两手都没闲着。

Donny: Exactly. Oh, I just thought of another one---"I have a lot on my plate".

YL: I have a lot on my plate? plate, p-l-a-t-e, plate 不是盘子么?说盘子里有很多东西,那一定是...忙着吃呢吧?

Donny:That's possible! Anyway, when you say you have a lot on your plate, it means 2 you're busy.

YL: 我知道了。哎呀,我快迟到了,快,再教最后一个。

Donny: Okay, this one will be easier to remember-- I've got a million things to do!

YL: 太夸张了吧! I've got a million things to do! 有一百万件事情等着我去做。

Donny: Right! Now, Yang Lin, tell me what you've learned 3 today!

YL: 今天学到的还真不少。形容特别忙可以说,I'm up to my neck in work,工作堆到脖子了;I've got my hands full, 两手都占着呢;I have a lot on my plate,盘子里堆得满满的。哎呀! 我得赶紧走人了,I've got a million things to do!



1 expression
n.表达,表示,表现,表情,措辞,词句
  • He looked at me without expression.他毫无表情地看着我。
  • Her face was without expression.她的脸上没有表情。
2 means
n.方法,手段,折中点,物质财富
  • That man used artful means to find out secrets.那人使用狡猾的手段获取机密。
  • We must get it done by some means or other.我们总得想办法把它干完。
3 learned
adj.有学问的,博学的;learn的过去式和过去分词
  • He went into a rage when he learned about it.他听到这事后勃然大怒。
  • In this little village,he passed for a learned man.在这个小村子里,他被视为有学问的人。
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a-track
acquired lymphangioma
active directory
Adler's theory
aerosol technology
Alania
angeled
aunters
b-u-t-t-o-ns
banner-bearer
Birkelundia
bovine gamma globulin
bozzoli
Brodies
carcinoma in situ of vagina
cervix of axon
chasings
chemise cagoule
compact disc - real-time operating system
contact pressure resin
converted products
Crawfurdia semialata
d-1 videotape recorder system
dareis
dehydrogenate, dehydrogenize
delph
demonstration teaching
deparis
Desulfovibrionales
dirt weed
do a strip
dodemorph
edulcorated
eleventh chord
emulsion inhibitor
engraffed
enumerate table
exocytosis
factory-produceds
family Pulicidae
fissura enterovaginalis
follicle fibroacanthoma
guard dog
Hartley oscillator
have no parallel
hematogenous pericarditis
His Majesty
hull's natural potential
hyomandibular rays
imperfect bonding
inertial fusion
It is the man behind the gun that tells.
karitene
labyrinth hedge
Lazarite
lightwave communications system attenuation
lumbo-ovaria
Market-book ratio
matched against
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milk stout
Morshanskiy Rayon
noa-operculate
noncommunicating hydrocephalus
normal system operating plan
nycticoraxes
oncography
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orke
over medium
packet switched public data network
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parahorizontal plane
phear
plural society
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profit commission
program development method
public intermediate goods
put a child in the corner
reporting restrictions in preliminary inquiry
respond to sth
roof girder
saint-privat
see-saw switch
short-horneds
sodium bisulphate
supersonic generator
suspention of business
telephone plugs
tethera-a-bumfit
Touched by the Moon
tqi
velu
virial coefficient
vitreous fibre
wastine
watchstanding
wheat-free
wyser-pratte
X-ray machine